It had a circulation of 10,000 from among that distressingly large tiny minority of extremists. “Germany shuts down Islamist newspaper,” from DPA, with thanks to Jeff Lastname:
BERLIN – Germany closed down on Friday a Turkish-language Islamist daily newspaper that has denied the Holocaust.
Interior Minister Otto Schily put a banning order on the Yeni Akit publishing house, which brings out the European edition of Anadoluda Vakit. The title means “the times in Anatolia”. Prosecutors have been collecting evidence against the newspaper for months.
The Interior Ministry in Berlin said the closure was ordered because Vakit had incited to ethnic hate. The newspaper had attacked Israel, Jews in general and the fundamentals of western society….
Despite warnings, the newspaper recently ran a letter headed “Hitler was right”. In December last year, a member of parliament held up an issue that claimed “There Was No Holocaust” and appealed to the government to ban the paper.